Blog Basics

What is Blogging?

It is an online platform allowing you to share information, ideas, and or other things with people.

Why should educators blog?

Educators should blog to be able to share information, ideas, lessons, effective teaching strategies, and many other things to help other people out. You can also incorporate a blog into your classroom that will share information about your class with students, parents and administrators. It can give insight into what goes on in your classroom as well as share upcoming events with the same stakeholders.

How can an elementary teacher use a blog?

This can be the medium that an elementary teacher could provide basic information about their classroom and any supplies or materials that students need to bring to class. This can be a way for parents to make sure that the letters teachers send home with students actually make it home by sharing those letters on your blog.

How can a middle school teacher use a blog?

Since middle school students are very social, a teacher can use this interest by using a blog to pose a question and then link a site such as TodaysMeet and have the students have a discussion based on the question posed by the teacher on the blog.

How can a high school teacher use the blog?

In high school a teacher can share supplemental resources on the blog that can assist the students with their homework, projects, tests and or quizzes as well as provide links on their blog that could be beneficial for their course.

How can parents utilize a teachers blog?

Next time I teach I want to make a blog that will be an announcement arena for my class. I will share the blog website with the students parents and then post things like due dates for projects, the days that tests are as well as when homework is assigned. I have had numerous parents in the past inform me that they didn't know what was going on in class so this is a simple way that I can share what is going on day by day.